Remembering the last Jews of Iraq
The story of the Jews in Iraq is one that dates back 2,500 years, but such was the speed that they were forced to abandon their homeland following the end of the Second World War and creation of...
‘Watching the moon at night’: The film that speaks truth to terror
A documentary about terror, especially if you have come perilously close to experiencing it in your own life or have lost people you love to it, as I have, can have you biting your lips,...
Huntington’s Cinema Arts Centre sets Jewish Film Series
Food, music and politics define the Jewish Film Series that launches this weekend at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington.
The series is less an official event than an ad hoc grouping of good movies...
New Film “1945” Explores Post-Holocaust Hungary and Local Collaboration Against the Jews
A new Hungarian film depicting the post-WWII attitude toward Jews in the country premiered last week in New York.
The movie, “1945,” is set one year after the Jewish population of a small Hungarian village was deported...
Jewish heritage bonds characters in ‘Call me by your name’
The film "Call Me By Your Name" features Jewish main characters and will screen opening night during the Miami Film Festival's mini-fest, GEMS 2017.
The film makes its Florida premiere on Oct. 12 at 7...
2017 Mandel JCC Jewish FilmFest kicks off Thursday
The 11th annual Mandel Jewish Community Center FilmFest will run from Thursday, Sept. 7, to Sunday, Sept. 17. The international festival will feature 19 full-length features and five short films.
This year's films will have an...
“Menashe” – Yiddish on the Big Screen
Tayere khaverim (Dear Friends),
The recently released and critically acclaimed Yiddish movie “Menashe” is coming to San Diego! Don’t worry (too much) - the movie has English subtitles. YAAANA is organizing a gathering (kum zits!)...
Film set in Hasidic community opening in South Florida
The powerful, eye-opening and moving drama "Menashe" that's set in a New York Hasidic community is scheduled to open in movie theaters across Broward, Miami-Dade and Palm Beach counties on Aug. 18.
Shot in secret...
‘I’ve always been seen by other people as Jewish’
My experience of comedians is that they’re rarely funny to meet. I’ve interviewed Ben Stiller, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ricky Gervais, Rob Schneider, Robin Williams and Woody Allen, and they were all interesting, intelligent individuals, but...
‘Common bond’: Film festival focuses ‘through lens of Jewish culture’
Five – this is the number of films that will be screened as part of the fourth annual Jewish Film Festival in Albuquerque, beginning Thursday, July 20.
And each one of the films will have...